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Let Me Dream: Part Two - Waking
Robin woke up slowly. He could hear a slow steady beeping and the sound of voices around him. When he tried to open his eyes, he found them heavy. If fact his entire body felt like it weighed a ton. He groaned slightly as he tried to move. He could hear voices in the room around him. A frantic call of, "He's awake!", echoed in his ears painfully. He tried to swallow but his throat was as dry as sandpaper.
"Starfire.." He rasped out, forcing his eyes open slowly. He still lacked the strength to sit up. There was a nurse standing over him checking his vitals.
"It's ok sweetheart.", she said, "You're going to be alright. We are calling your parents and paging Dr. Snow right now. They'll be here soon. You just lay there are relax." Robin's eyes shifted around the room hastlily. He couldn't understand why he was here. What did this woman mean calling his parents. Didn't they realize his parents were dead? Didn't the Titans tell her?
"Where are.." Robin choked on his words, unable to force them past his dry lips. The nurse lifted his head and placed a glass of water to his lips.
"Drink it slowly, not too much." Robin didn't listen though, his need for the water left him so frantic for it that he swallowed too much, too fast and it left him choking. The coughing fit was too much for his body and he slipped into unconsciousness again.
Robin woke up slowly the next time to find himself surrounded by shockingly familiar faces.
"Mom..?" He whispered out in disbelief. His mother's eyes filled with tears as she stroked his face and kissed his forehead.
"I'm here baby, I'm here. So is daddy. We came as soon as we found out you were awake." Robin's eyes shifted to the man standing next to her.
"Hey Champ." His father smiled and clamped a hand lovingly on his shoulder. "I'm glad to see you decided to join the land of the living." His father's tone was light, but his eyes shone with barely restrained tears.
"I don't understand. I thought you were dead." Robin rasped out, barely above a whisper. "How are you here?" His mother hugged him gently and rained kisses on his face. His father laughed.
"Robin, we weren't the ones in the accident and you are shocked to find us alive? We thought for sure.." His father's voice caught in his throat unable to finish his sentence.
A doctor entered the room, stepping up behind Robin's parents. "We worried child, that you would not wake up. I am glad to see you pull through and prove us all wrong." Robin's eyes narrowed.
"Wake up?" Robin's mother soothed his hair back from his face.
"Yes darling, you have in a coma now for almost a year. We never stopped praying though, we knew.. we knew you'd come back to us." Robin tried to back away from her touch, his heart was racing as his eyes darted between the people in his room. No, it has to be a trick. These people are dead.
"Where are the other Titans? What have you done with them? Where is Starfire?" Robin's mother pulled back from the anger on his face and the ice in his voice.
"Robin.. what are you talking about? What Titans, what Starfire?"
"My friends! What have you done with my friends? Let me out of here!" Robin's mother buried her face into his father's shoulder. Dr. Snow came up and placed a hand on Robin's chest, holding him down.
"Robin, Robin please calm down. You are a little disoriented. We have not done anything with anyone. You have been in a coma for a year. You need to understand this. You need to calm down. There is no reason to upset youself and your parents who have waited so long for you to awaken." Tears ran freely down Robin's face as it all sunk in. The thought of the Titans, the knowledge that everything he knew did not exist was too much for him.
"A year? I've been in a coma for a year?" Dr. Snow nodded and pulled his hand away. Robin sobbed thinking of the other Titans. "I've been dreaming for a year?"
"Yes son." His father said, looking sadly down at the boy. Robin rolled over and burried his face into his pillow. His shoulders shaking with his sobs. His father reached out a hand to sooth him but Robin shook him off.
"Leave me alone. Just leave me alone. Let me dream."
